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Strictly Slots Magazine April / May 2023 BRINGING THE THUNDER Gaming Arts kicks off the summer season with Thor’s Thunder on the Vert-X Grand cabinet By Frank Legato DIFFERENT GAMES, DIFFERENT STRATEGIES Strategy tips for Double Double Bonus By Henry Tamburin LONE STAR STATE OF GAMBLING Galveston Island’s unique history of underground casinos By Sean […]
Gaming Arts kicks off the summer season with Thor’s Thunder on the Vert-X Grand cabinet By Frank Legato When visiting the slot floor, players certainly can expect to see games from famous slot suppliers like IGT and Aristocrat. Lately, though, we’ve seen major hits from a company that’s only been in the slot business […]
Strategy tips for Double Double Bonus By Henry Tamburin A friend of mine used to play Jacks or Better but claims the game wasn’t “exciting enough” for him so he switched to Double Double Bonus (DDB). The reason is because unlike Jacks or Better, where all four-of-a-kind hands pay 125 coins (max coin bet), […]
Galveston Island’s unique history of underground casinos By Sean Chaffin As one of Texas’s oldest cities, Galveston has quite a history. That stretches back to 1528 when Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca and his crew were shipwrecked on the island. French and Spanish explorers traversed the area in the coming years and famed pirate […]
The mesmerism of slots By Frank Scoblete It was April 2 in the mid-1990s (or thereabouts) and this was at Golden Nugget in Las Vegas, near the jingling Treasure Island slot machines, and she came up to my wife the Beautiful AP and me and asked, “Do you know what day this is?” “It’s […]
When Cirque du Soleil created its first permanent Las Vegas production with Mystère at Treasure Island Hotel & Casino in 1993, founder Guy Laliberté said his fledgling circus troupe wanted to “grow a flower in the desert.” Safe to say that flower became a bouquet even he couldn’t have imagined. This year, the world-renowned entertainment […]
There are some excellent bets in the casinos, though even the best bets have house edges By Frank Scoblete Take your pick, my friends. Casinos are good places to play games. Casinos are the worst places to play games. There are some excellent bets in the casinos. There are some horrible bets in the […]
Slot awards reveal the most popular slot games in the business By Frank Legato In late February, I went to the fifth annual Slot Awards hosted by consultancy Eilers & Krejcik Gaming. These awards analyze slot games in 15 categories for physical casinos, plus separate awards for online and social games. What sets these […]
A look at video blackjack By John Grochowski In most state gaming commission revenue reports, wagering totals and payouts are listed for electronic gaming devices. The category isn’t “slot machines,” and that’s deliberate. In the information they release to the public, casinos and regulators do not differentiate among slot machines and other electronic games […]
Our annual compilation of the most generous slot operations in the nation By Frank Legato “Loose slots” are more valuable than ever. The “loosest” slots, tabulated by Casino Player, are those with the highest return-to-player (RTP) percentage—the highest payback percentage. The reason loose slots are more valuable than ever is that overall payback percentage numbers […]